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Default 05-29-2004, 10:07 AM

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Originally Posted by SoLiDUS
Unless you intend on doing a lot of computationally-intensive tasks like
MP3 encoding, video encoding and using CAD applications, there's simply
NO REASON to purchase a P4 when an Athlon XP/64 at half the price and
speed will outperform it in almost every respect. I've recently assembled
a really nice gaming rig on the A64+KT800 architecture and it has yet to
let me down... Farcry runs like a dream and Windows XP loads in 10 secs...
Its gonna be used alot for gaming. But im also taking it to college so im gonna be doing mostly research and reports. Nothing to extensive. So yea, i think ill go with the Athlon.
  
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